Chapter 6 – Upgrading the Firmware and Flash
Upgrading the Flash
Serial Flash Upgrade
The following steps explain the procedure to upgrade a flash using the serial COM port (serial flash upgrade). Connect the Adapter to a PC COM Port.
•Open an application through which we can access the serial device(e.g., Meterm, zoc, hyperterm).
•Reboot the Adapter.
•Wait for the boot message and prompt “press d to download” to appear.
•Press d when prompted.
•Select the XMODEM Protocol from the Terminal application.
•Choose a file
•Perform a file upload.
The Adapter reboots and will be up after a few seconds
Ethernet Flash Upgrade
The Adapter can be remotely upgraded over a network. Make sure a TFTP client is already installed on the machine.
The following steps explain the method to perform flash upgrade from Ethernet.
•Make sure the Adapter is reachable on the LAN.
•Perform a TFTP to the Adapter from a TFTP client.
–Set binary mode on (Note: This step is very important)
–Binary
•Put the binary file.
–put <binary filename>
•Exit the TFTP session.
–quit
The Adapter reboots after it has been successfully upgraded.
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